Dead Child
Camille Pissarro
1874
Medium
Lithograph in black on grayish-ivory wove China paper
Dimensions
Image: 21.7 × 27.2 cm (8 9/16 × 10 3/4 in.); Sheet: 30.8 × 39.6 cm (12 3/16 × 15 5/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
192877
About the Artist
Camille Pissarro · 1831–1903
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) stands as the patriarch of Impressionism, the only artist to exhibit in all eight Impressionist exhibitions and a mentor whose influence shaped the trajectory of modern art. Born Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas to a Jewish-Portuguese merchant family, he abandoned the family business to pursue painting, eventually settling in Paris i...